That’s Ms Linkspammer to you (4th December, 2009)

• Something to contribute to: Be counted! A survey of the gender distribution at tech events: annina an9, Persephone Miel, Hanna Wallach and Karen Brennan have launched a site to collect data on gender diversity at tech events.
• Women researchers less likely to receive major career funding grants, U-M study shows: Women researchers who received early career grants in science are not receiving more senior grants at the same rate.
• Moderating backchannel content streams at conferences: Emma Jane Hogbin recommends applying conference standards to backchannels, and wants a technological solution allowing backchannels to be moderated if they're going to be publicly displayed.
• Sarah Milstein asks on O’Reilly Radar What Would Jane Austen Have Twittered?. She notes that mail at the time was delivered several times a day in some areas, making it in some ways like email or microblogging.
• fillyjonk of Shapely Prose had a link roundup for Transgender Day of Remembrance on November 20.
• (trigger warning) A very confronting Danish anti-domestic violence campaign features a computer game in which the player assaults a woman.
• Internet provider Quest is advertising Internet hotspots with photographs of a woman wearing a “I’m a hotspot” shirt.
• Sarah Blow reviews Mary Kirk’s book Gender and Information Technology but doesn’t find enough new content to justify the asking price.
• Whitney Johnson has negotiated since her first salary offer, but she knows that women can be trapped both ways: Can “Nice Girls” Negotiate?
• Lorna Mitchell announces that a PHPWomen Calendar for 2010 is now on sale, and recounts some of her feelings about appearing in it.
• (trigger warning) Patrick Stewart recounts domestic violence in his childhood against his mother and himself.

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